Don't worry they will. One day you wont be able to look at prices without using your personal device. That way you will know YOUR price, which will be determined by the store analysis of your finances and what they think you can afford.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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our city is banning these, but there still some simps who want the grocery stores to fuck 'em harder
https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/grocery-dynamic-pricing/4264679
compares it to the ancient art of haggling LOLOL..... no you don't get to fucking haggle with the self checkout toolbag, goddamn these morons are so fucking dumb but willing to bend over for more corpo fuckery
Not if your government steps in and says "aw fuck no!"
Last time I was at the grocery store, I noticed half the tags were set to "Out of Stock" even though the items were clearly in stock. This effectively meant you had no clue what the price of the item was until you check out.
I think you mean dynamic pricing? Digital tags have been the norm in my country for probably half a decade now, with no issues or crazy price hikes
OP doesn't mean shit because these aren't their words. They're a reddit repost bot spamming ragebait
Honestly, the real problem is that ragebait works. Like, if that's what people decide to engage with on social media, then that's what's going to show up, whether it's skimmed highly-scoring Reddit content or not.
You could try to produce "no-ragebait" communities.
You could try to introduce a recommendation algorithm that uses heuristics to try to identify ragebait and let users who don't want it filter it out or simply recommend based on their voting.
One thing that always confused me about this.. if the price is so dynamic that it can change per person, how does the price get tagged to that person all the way to the register? It’s not like there’s a new barcode or rfid tag that magically appears between the milk isle and the front of the store.
It will be a congestion charge. Prices will go up and down based upon the time of day and how many people are in the store.
Or umbrellas will be pricier when it’s raining lol..
I really doubt it's that deep. The price likely just changes globally.
So if you pick up your item while it's $7, but then walk to the register and it's now $9, it would ring up as $9.
Yeah, that does sound like deceptive marketing, but my random guess is that it likely isn't changed much throughout the day.
If it can detect a specific person near the tag, it can detect that same person at the register. You work with loyalty cards?
Hmm.. I suppose technically they can ID your phone via Bluetooth / wifi / However, but that’s too coarse grained. And what if it’s me and you reaching for a tub of butter at the same time? What price is displayed and who gets “tagged” with it? What happens on a typical grocery store shelf where there’s 8000 items within reaching distance? Do all the tags change? lol
Maybe nfc or rfid for more specific detection? But that’s really close … You”d almost have to purposely hold your phone / card next to the tag for that.. and oh by the way, the tag would all of a sudden stop being a dumb eink display with a one-way mechanism, and it would require the ability to do all kinds of fancy radio telemetry not to mention communications.
I feel like if anything were to practically happened it would be closer to the Amazon store concept where they didn’t have any employees and just a bunch of cameras, watching your face and what you picked up and put in your bag or whatever. And then “AI” (offshore people) would charge it accordingly. It would still only work, of course, for use cases were single consumer presence was detected nearby, etc. oh and can you imagine Someone going to a store with a phone zoomed in on the prices recording a video and then watching the prices change as they got closer?
Interesting thought experiment
Man, this place was doing fine with original content.
Quit flooding all these communities with reddit reposts. And mark yourself as a bot while you're at it
I worked on a project, prototyping these. I don't think the tech is quite there yet to recognize YOU, adjust the price on individual items, and update the tag as you walk up.
But if they could figure out how to Minority Report it reliably, they totally would.
The tag is not concerning me as much as all the shit covering the milk jug.
They're pretty easy to break.
It jumps up to 12 when you reach for it